José Mari Bakero

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José Mari Bakero
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José Mari Bakero (2010)
Personnel
Surname José María Bakero Escudero
birthday February 11, 1963
place of birth Goizueta ,  Spain
size 172 cm
position Attacking midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1988 Real Sociedad 223 (67)
1988-1996 FC Barcelona 260 (72)
1997 CD Veracruz 17 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1982-1986 Spain U-21 5 0(1)
1986 Spain U-23 1 0(0)
1987-1994 Spain 30 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999 Puebla FC
2004-2005 Málaga CF B
2006 Real Sociedad
2007-2008 Valencia CF (assistant coach)
2009-2010 Polonia Warsaw
2010–2012 Lech poses
2012-2013 Juan Aurich
1 Only league games are given.

José María Bakero Escudero (born February 11, 1963 in Goizueta ) is a former Spanish soccer player and now soccer coach .

José Mari Bakero is one of the most successful players in Spanish football history. He made 483 league appearances for Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona and scored 139 goals. The Basque ranks 8th among the players with the most appearances in the Primera División . As a midfielder , he won numerous titles with both clubs. He also took part in several major tournaments with the Spanish national team.

Player career

Real Sociedad

In 1980, at the age of only 17, José Mari Bakero began his career at the traditional Basque club Real Sociedad San Sebastián . At first he played as a striker, but later mainly as an attacking midfielder. In the eight years that he played in San Sebastián , he and his team won two completely unexpected championships (1981, 1982), a Spanish Super Cup (1982) and a Spanish Cup in 1987. During his time at Real Sociedad, for that he played 223 games, he developed into one of the best midfielders in the league.

FC Barcelona

In the summer of 1988 he moved to the top club FC Barcelona and although he had already been in the professional business for eight years and was able to win several titles, he was still very young when he came to the "Blaugrana" at the age of 25. In Johan Cruyff's team he played with some other Basque players ( Txiki Begiristain , López Rekarte , Julio Salinas ). He was part of the “Dream Team” of FC Barcelona, ​​which partly showed off the opponents and clearly dominated in the early 90s and played five European finals. In the 1991/92 European Cup , he paved the way for his team into the group phase and later to Wembley with the 3-1 goal in the second leg at 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the second round of the tournament . There Barcelona beat Sampdoria Genoa 1-0 in the final of the tournament , making them European champions .

At the end of his time at the big FC Barcelona, ​​Bakero had 13 titles. In 1997 he left the club to end his career in Mexico with CD Veracruz . His stay was over after six months because he could n't find his way around the league .

International

For the Spanish national team, he played 30 games in which he scored seven times. He played his first game on October 14, 1987 in a 2-0 win against Austria . He took part in three finals: the 1988 European Championship in Germany , the 1990 World Cup in Italy and the 1994 World Cup in the USA .

Coaching career

His first post as head coach was in the summer of 1999 at Puebla FC , where he was in charge of the first eight games in the 1999 summer tournament of the Mexican Primera División . Then Bakero was temporarily active in the coaching staff of FC Barcelona under Louis van Gaal . His first position as head coach in Spain he took over during the 2004/05 season as the successor to Antonio Tapia with the second team of FC Málaga . He was able to achieve relegation in the Segunda División .

After the season, in August 2005, he took over the post of sports director at Real Sociedad . In March 2006 he was appointed head coach of the Basque first division club. After he reached only 2 of a possible 21 points from the first seven games of the season, he was released in October of the same year.

From the end of 2007 he worked as an assistant coach at Valencia CF in the coaching staff of the Dutchman Ronald Koeman . After his dismissal in April 2008, when the entire coaching staff was dissolved, Bakero also had to leave the club. In mid-November 2009 he signed a contract with the Polish first division club Polonia Warsaw . After he was fired from Polonia at the beginning of the 2010/11 season , he signed a contract with Lech Posen . There he was released on February 24, 2012 after a 3-0 defeat in the game against Ruch Chorzów .

title

Real Sociedad:

FC Barcelona:

National team:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b José Mari Bakero in the database of bdfutbol.com (English)
  2. ↑ fifa.com, “Dream Team” passes on experience
  3. ↑ weltfussball.de: Primera Division - record players
  4. ↑ perodistadigital.com, José Mari Bakero es el nuevo entrenador de la Real Sociedad desde este jueves
  5. ↑ elpais.com, La Real Sociedad destituye a José Mari Bakero
  6. ↑ elpais.com, Bakero se reencuentra con Koeman y será el segundo entrenador del Valencia
  7. ↑ bundesliga.de, Koeman dismissed in Valencia - the assistant coaches have to leave too
  8. ↑ transfermarkt.de : Bakero is moving to Poland
  9. ↑ 90minut.pl: José María Bakero zwolniony z Lecha (Polish)


personal data
SURNAME Bakero, José Mari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bakero Escudero, José María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Goizueta , Spain